Questions tagged [login-screen]
Use this tag when asking about login screens for any operating system
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Get rid of the power and accessibility options on Windows 8 logon screen
I'm using Windows 8 and I find the power button and the accessibility options very annoying. It's a computer that is in a public place surrounded with kids and they keep on changing the accessibility ...
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Hide users from Mac OS X Snow Leopard logon screen
Somehow, I managed to set a passwd for my _postgres user on my OS instead of setting it on the postgres role I have as my superuser / root. Anyways since this, I've been struggling with that user ...
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How can I take a screenshot of my logon screen in Windows 7?
Ideally, this can be done for a non-virtual installation of Windows 7 and without the use of an RDP client connection. There are numerous blog posts, how-to's, etc that include screen shots of the ...
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How can I change the Windows 7 Logon Screen wallpaper?
Is there an easy (and free) way to change the Logon Screen wallpaper in Windows 7?
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How to remove or disable Ease of Access button on Windows 7 login screen
Question refers to Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.
When I lock my computer I don't want people to be able to mess about with it, so would like the Ease of Access button (in the bottom left corner of ...
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How to select the account on the login screen of Windows7 by start typing the name?
When MacOS boots up and the users is prompted to select the account (s)he wants to login into, the users can either click the name / icon of the account with the mouse or just type in the name of the ...
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How can I reduce the time Windows takes to report a password is wrong?
I use Windows 7 on a Lenovo laptop. When I enter a wrong password, either when I'm connected to our network or when disconnected, it takes quite a lot of time for Windows to report the password is ...
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Is there a way to "preselect" a certain user on the Windows 7 login screen?
On one of my computers with Windows 7 I have a fairly long list of users, while I'm the only one using it locally with some regularity.
Is there any way to have a certain (or simply the last) user ...
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Windows 10 login screen has become very slow since recently
Slow Login-Screen
I haven't noticed when exactly I started observing the extreme slow down of the Windows 10 login screen on my laptop.
Sometimes, this screen is fast as it was normally; but once in ...
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Windows 8 Setting an image on the login screen
In Windows 8.1 when you log in there's the prelogin screen that has an image you can change, but then there's also the login (password entry) screen that as far as I can see is just a solid color.
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No user list in the login screen after changing the user ID
Edit: Problem 1 has been resolved.
I followed this link and changed my user id to 1000 (same as Linux user id), so that I can share files freely between Mac and Linux. Now I have these two problems:
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win7 keyboard layout change from logon screen
I am having a nightmare right now, which is I'm stuck on logon screen of windows 7 professional. My password includes turkish characters and the keyboard layout changed somehow to english. And on ...
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Auto-logon but with lockscreen on PC, is it possible?
I use my PC as a server and want to run apps without logging in manually. They cannot run as a service and apps that can convert apps to services like NSSM also don't work perfectly.
So basically when ...
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Windows 8.1 default (system) lock screen customization
Recently, I've reinstalled Windows on my laptop, upgrading it from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1. Now, I want to change the theme (or at least, wallpaper) which is shown on the screen before any user logs ...
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How to wake from screensaver directly to the login screen in Ubuntu
(a.k.a. How to switch users without entering password, part II) (see part I)
I've got Ubuntu 9.10 with a user account for my wife, and one for myself. "Wake-from-screensaver" should result in "choose ...
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